Shoe-tread protector



Se t. 2 1924. 1,506,917

L. W. NIMSCHKE SHOE TREAD PROTECTOR Filed Feb. 9 R921 avwmtoz Zoza'a l L lvz'maczl'e @33 his away 0130 Patented Sept. 2, 1924.

UNITED STATES LOUIS WILLIAM NIMSCHKE, OF OLD BRIDGE, NEW JERSEY.

SHOE-TREAD PROTECTOR.

Application filed February 9, 1921.

To all whom it may camera.

Be it known that I, LoUIs tVILLIAi-r NIMsoHKa, citizen of the United States, and resident of Old Bridge, in the county of Middlesex and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Shoe-Tread Protectors, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to shoe treadprotectors and particularlyto devices of this class adapted to be used upon the soles and heels of shoes, and the object of the invention is to provide a device of the class specified with improved means for supporting and retaining calks or other pro ecting tread bodies in connection wth the soles and heels of shoes; a further object being to pro vide means for detachably supporting said calks or projecting tread members; and with these and other objects in view the invention consists in a device of the class and for the purpose specified which is simple in construction, eflicient in use and which is constructed as hereinafter described and claimed.

The invention is fully disclosed in the following specification, of which the accompanying drawing forms a part, in which the separate parts of my improvement are designated by suitable reference characters in each of the views, and in which Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a supporting plate or holder which I employ; and,

Fig. 2 a view similar to Fig. 1 on a re duced scale showing a number of calks or other tread members mounted in connection with the plate.

In the drawing 5 represents the supporting plate of my improved device, said supporting plate being preferably composed of sheet metal and being oblong and rectangular in form and provided with a plurality of ears 6 having apertures 7 therein to facilitate the mounting of the plate 5 in connection with a sole or heel, and these cars may be turned upwardly upon and secured to the edges of a sole or heel, and the plate 5 is also provided with other apertures 8 spaced thereon through which other attaching devices may be passed and any number of which apertures may be employed.

The plate 5 is also cut out and fashioned to form three pairs of transversely arranged projecting jaw members 9 comprising a plurality of independent tongues 10 which are turned inwardly to a slight extent and provided with inwardly turned flanges 11 to Serial No. 443,717.

form substantially dove-tail holders of the separate pairs of jaw members 9. The tongues 10 are also preferably provided with small apertures 12 through which nails, screws, or the like may be assed.

The plate 5 is also provided at the opposite ends of the jaw members 9 at the opposite sides of said plate with upwardly directed tongues 13 which serve to center the calks or tread members 14 within the separate pairs of jaw members of the protector.

In Fig. 2 of the drawing I have shown three calks or tread members 14 mounted in the jaw members 9, and said calks or tread members may be composed of any desirable material suitable for the purpose for which they are intended, and it will be noted that the flanges are adapted to penetrate the side edges of said callrs or tread members, and the cars 13 serve to prevent lateral movement of said tread members in addition to the separate jaw members 10.

In Fig. 2 of the drawing, I have shown one end portion of the plate 5 turned downwardly as shown at 15 to form a reinforcing flange, but my invention is not necessarily limited to this structural detail, nor am I necessarily limited to the specific form and construction of the plate 5 herein shown and described, nor to the form and construction of the separate jaw members employed, and various changes in and modifications of the construction herein shown and described may be made, within the scope of the appended claims, without departin from the spirit of my invention or sacri ce its advantages.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A shoe tread protector of the class described comprising a plate provided with a plurality of pairs of jaw members, a plu rality of tread members adapted to be supported in connection with said plate by said aw members, and means on said plate independent of said jaw members for preventing lateral movement of said tread members.

2. A shoe tread protector of the class described comprising a plate provided with a plurality of pairs of jaw members, a plurality of tread members adapted to be supported in connection with said plate by said jaw members, means on said plate for preventing lateral movement of said. tread members, and means for securing said plate in connection with the tread of a shoe, each of said jaw members comprising a plurality of spaced ears fashioned from said plate.

3. A shoe tread protector of the class described comprising a plate provided with a plurality of pairs of jaw members, a plurality of tread members adapted to be supported in connection with said plate by said aw members, means on said plate for preventing lateral. movement ofsaid tread members, means for securing said plate in connection with the tread of a. shoe, said jaw members comprising a plurality of spaced ears fashioned from said plate, and the free ends of said ears having: inwardly turned flanges, and said ears being apertured.

4. A shoe tread protector of the class described comprising a sheet metal platefashioned to form a plurality of spaced jaw members, said jaw members beingarranged in pairs, tread members adapted to be mounted in connection with the separate pairs of jaw members and to be retained in connection with said plate by said jaw members, and tongues fashioned from said plate and cooperating with said tread members for preventing lateral movement thereof.

5. A shoe tread protector of the class described eomprising a sheet metal plate fashioned to form a plurality of spaced jaw members, said jaw members being arranged in pairs, tread members adapted to be mounted in connection with the separate pairs of jaw members and to be retained in connection with said plate by said jaw members, tongues fashioned from said plate and;

cooperating with said trade members for preventing lateral movement thereof, and means passed through said jaw members and into said tread members for aiding and holding said tread members in position,

Signed at Old Bridge in the county of Middlesex and State of New Jersey this 23 day of August A. D. 1922.

LOUIS WILLIAM NIMSQHKE. 

